Synodic month length 29.49 days

Length of current 979 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer than next lunation 980 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 3 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 6 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 14 March 2079 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠296.6°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠296.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠322.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after perigee

6 days after point of perigee on 8 March 2079 at 01:47 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 March 2079 at 14:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 376 358 km

Moon before descending node

7 days after its ascending node on 7 March 2079 at 01:24 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 March 2079 at 07:24 in ♏ Scorpio.

Draconic month

Moon after northern standstill

2 days after previous North standstill on 11 March 2079 at 13:15 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.915°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.001° in the next southern standstill on 25 March 2079 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.